4-fold what? Percentages without indexes are meaningless propaganda.
Ah, but overdoses in Portugal (pop. 10.5 million) 219 / 130% = +51 by legalization. How does that compare with the number of murders by drug cartels in Juarez, Mexico, alone? (pop. 1.5 million, 1500 murders per year)
How does drug legalization lead to more illegal drug trafficking? By being phoney. By over-regulation of the market. By high taxes to exploit fake legalization. In other words, by continuing to do everything true conservatives stand against.
"Prescription drug abuse is the Nation’s fastest-growing drug problem. While there has been a marked decrease in the use of some illegal drugs like cocaine, data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) show that nearly one-third of people aged 12 and over who used drugs for the first time in 2009 began by using a prescription drug non-medically."
Recent statistics can no longer be found from the CDC. They are cooking the numbers, which is exactly what happened in Portugal.
Dirty Doctors, Russian Mafia Fueling Prescription Drug and Heroin Abuse in N.J., investigation finds:
Everything is corrupt these days, I lived in South America and know a Narco Nation when I see it. Uncle Sam is on the cartel's payroll. There is no war on drugs. It is all a farce. Do you really believe the same Golliath Government that can monitor every conversation, and keystroke, has no idea what is going on? The DEA was in Colombia burning coca fields in the 80's, today they the DEA and Sinaloa are working together. Holder's ATF armed the Sinaloa, like the Obama admin. did the Taliban. Afghan's cash crop is out of control and so are the Islamic Radicals that profit from it.
Mexican Diplomat Says America Pretty Much Invited The Sinaloa Drug Cartel Across The Border
http://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-the-us-works-with-cartels-2012-9#ixzz36vAJbBpS
CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With SINALOA Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel (Sinaloa Drug Traffickers testified that the feds agreed they could traffic into Chicago) JAN. 13, 2014
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz30wXEcHSl
Nothing the Government Tell You is Truth
The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/